The incident happened near West 5th Street and Neptune Avenue in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood around 6 p.m., according to the NYPD. Michael Shelonchik, 53, of Brooklyn, was sitting in ...

“The fact that a person is present in the United States without lawful authorization is a civil matter, not a crime,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch wrote in a memo ahead of possible mass ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — An NYPD officer was injured while responding to an individual who was asleep inside a vehicle in Annadale early Tuesday morning, according to a department spokeswoman.

The NYPD lieutenant who accused disgraced ex-Chief Jeffrey Maddrey of a sex-for-overtime arrangement skirted departmental charges and will retire amid an ongoing federal probe into the matter ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Starting Monday, two NYPD police officers will be on every overnight subway train as officials work to improve public safety. Governor Hochul announced the plan last week in her ...

The patients suffered minor injuries and were in stable condition at Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze, according to preliminary information supplied to a spokesman for the NYPD ...

NEW YORK - The NYPD announced a change in its policy on high-speed chases. There's a new directive to keep the public, and officers, safe while catching criminals. In 2022, the NYPD went on the ...

NYPD officers will no longer be allowed to chase after vehicles fleeing car stops under a new departmentwide policy that allows pursuits only when a felony crime or a violent misdemeanor is ...

New York City police officers will no longer engage in high-speed pursuits of suspects in low-level crimes in a move aimed at keeping civilians and officers safe, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch ...

In December, we reported that the number of car chases by New York Police Department officers skyrocketed under Mayor Eric Adams, accompanied by a rise in the crash rate for NYPD vehicles.

The policy, announced Wednesday by NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, will prohibit vehicle chases for low-level infractions, limiting pursuits to incidents that involve more serious violent crimes.

According to 911 data obtained by the website Streetsblog NYC, vehicle chases spiked from 15 in January 2022 to 227 in January 2024. Police made more than 100 pursuits each month from July 2023 to ...